Hollyoaks Sheree: My kids cringe at kissing scenes

Hollyoaks Sheree: My kids cringe at kissing scenes
Hollyoaks Sheree: My kids cringe at kissing scenes

Hollyoaks star Sheree Murphy has revealed that her children cringe over her kissing scenes with toy boys. In the soap, Sheree's man-eating character Eve Strong has had to smooch the likes of teenager Duncan, played by Dean Aspen. The 35-year-old told The Mirror: "Whenever there are any love scenes, my nine-year-old Taylor cringes and says, 'I'm going to tell Dad!' He's so embarrassed!" She went on: "One of Eva's relationships was with a 16-year-old and although the actor was 22, I felt like an old nana. I couldn't imagine dating a younger man. "I wouldn't be able to take my clothes off in front of them for a start! Nothing looks the same. I'm very happily married, anyway." Mum-of-three Sheree, who has been married to footballer Harry Kewell for 10 years, is taking a break from Hollyoaks this year, but producers reportedly want her to return next year. She added: "I'm enjoying working and earning money. Not being in Hollyoaks all the time suits me. It's worked out perfectly."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.